I originated this thread and feel that I did not articulate more clearly the problem I have with digital "pianos". 1. Touch sensitivity. I play the piano and have to date not found a single digital instrument that has the touch sensitivity of even the worst acoustical. This seems to do mostly with the length of the key and associated leverage. There are big differences between playing arpeggios on longer keys where the weight is more uniform because of the action geometry. and keys that are short and artificially loaded by springs. 2. The sound board in an acoustical piano sums (read capital Sigma) the vibrations that are transmitted to it via the bridge from all currently moving strings thus, providing the unique characteristics of individual instruments. For those more familiar with the artists of the "Golden age of piano" is it possible to imagine Horowitz playing his version of the Liszt second Hungarian Rhapsody on a Beckstein?? Or more recently, Murray Perahia playing Mozart on a Bosendorfer Imperial?. Digital Instruments flatten them all out into the same glat-kultur sound. Yes , digital instruments certainly do have a place, but certainly not as solo instruments. I just have a real hard time calling them pianos. Lorenzo Lacovara The Piano Exchange BUY SELL TUNING REPAIRS Hoffman Town Square 2225 Wyoming NE Albuquerque, NM 87110 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080119/4edea1c9/attachment.html
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